Lot Essay
Alexandra Feodorovna was Empress consort of Russia as the wife of Tsar Nicholas I. Their son became Tsar Alexander II of Russia.
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IWAN WINBERG (RUSSO-SWEDISH, FL. C. 1825-1846)
Alexandra Feodorovna (1798-1860), Empress of Russia, née Princess Charlotte of Prussia, in silver off-the-shoulders dress embellished with pearls and rubies, wearing a pearl necklace with diamond and ruby-set clasp, corresponding earrings, kokoshnik adorned with diamonds, rubies, emeralds and pearls from which flows a white gauze veil; red curtain background
signed 'Winberg.' (mid-right)
on ivory
oval, 4 1/8 in. (105 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount
Alexandra Feodorovna (1798-1860), Empress of Russia, née Princess Charlotte of Prussia, in silver off-the-shoulders dress embellished with pearls and rubies, wearing a pearl necklace with diamond and ruby-set clasp, corresponding earrings, kokoshnik adorned with diamonds, rubies, emeralds and pearls from which flows a white gauze veil; red curtain background
signed 'Winberg.' (mid-right)
on ivory
oval, 4 1/8 in. (105 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount
Provenance
Christie's, Geneva, 13 November 1990, lot 201.
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